Reply to Cross-Contamination Explains \"Inter and Intraspecific Horizontal Genetic Transfers\" between Asexual Bdelloid Rotifers (Wilson, Nowell & Barraclough 2018)

Abstract

We thank Wilson et al. (2018) for their thorough re-analysis of our data and for their constructive criticisms that led our groups to exchange many stimulating emails over the last two years. Although we agree that inter-individual contamination can yield patterns suggestive of inter-individual recombination, we are not fully convinced by their criticisms of our 2016 dataset and would like to point here briefly to some inaccuracies and likely errors in their interpretation of our chromatograms.